Mapping of Collective Actions in Tunisia
Publication Date: 2019
The mapping of collective actions in Tunisia tracks mobilisations by groups of people whose goal is to achieve a common objective.
Each mapped collective action is based on a typology devised by the Centre for Social Sciences Research and Action.
The objective of this database is to explore collective actions by providing accurate data and relevant information on mobilisations happening in the country.
Explore the interactive charts below the table.
Data collection for this mapping is done by the CeSSRA team.
Information sources: Media reports, NGO reports, aid actors reports, as well as first-hand data collected by the CeSSRA team.
Period covered by data collection: December 23rd, 2019 - till present.
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| Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response |
Location |
Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gafsa residents roadblock over drinking water cuts | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | August 16, 2022 |
| Contract teachers stage a sit-in outside the regional commission for Education in Gafsa to demand permanent positions | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | June 10, 2022 |
| Protesters block the Om El Arayes - Gafsa road after a man was shot by a hunting rifle to demand an investigation | Clan member | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | June 7, 2022 |
| Post offices employees strike in Gafsa to demand their labour rights and better working conditions | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | January 7, 2022 |
| Guard workers in the National Railway Company stage a sit-in demanding better working conditions. | Workers group: Other | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | December 12, 2022 |
| Families of those arrested in cases of administrative and financial corruption in relation to a phosphate company in Gafsa stage a sit-in to demand the release of those arrested more than 15 months ago. | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | November 29, 2022 |
| Protesters block the Zanoush-Gafsa road to protest recurring water cuts in the region, and the closure of the post office | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | May 30, 2022 |
| Teachers in a middle school in Gafsa stage a sit-in to protest against the assault on a schoolteacher by the guardian of one of the students and demand to prosecute the aggressor | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Other | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | October 26, 2021 |
| Gafsa residents stage a sit-in outside Gafsa governorate headquarters to protest water cuts | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | July 4, 2022 |
| Protesters block the Om El Arayes - Gafsa road after a man was shot by a hunting rifle to demand an investigation | Clan member | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | June 5, 2022 |